Word: homers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...playbills called it a "musical romantic comedy," but the critics decided that Home Sweet Homer was tragic...
Loosely based on Homer's Odyssey, with Yul Brynner playing the Greek wanderer, the show had endless problems during a yearlong eleven-city tour, including a demand by Writer Erich (Love Story) Segal that his name be removed from the credits. He must have known something...
...school. The schools were not, by and large, free. Nor were they compulsory in the sense that every child in a certain area had to attend them. Some fortunate boys were educated in grammar schools with college in mind: they studied the Bible, Erasmus, Aesop, Ovid, Cicero, Vergil, Homer, Hesiod; Latin and Greek. Above all, there was what might be called a strongly moral education. Such an education for the colonists was by definition religious-God's will made known to the child...
...true source of our problems," Florman finds, "is nothing other than the irrepressible human will"; it is the "dyspeptic philosophers" of anti-technology who would deny human beings the right to desire material comforts. Florman then offers an "existential" philosophy for his profession. Quoting widely from such sources as Homer, the Old Testament, Henry Adams and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, he lists joys available to his colleagues: the thrill derived from an elegant solution to a problem; the absorption in the workings of a machine; the satisfaction of having created something that will help one's fellow...
Parents are back in style in three books of poems for the young. John Lawrence's Rabbit & Pork: Rhyming Talk (Crowell; $6.95) revives the old cockney custom of jingling euphemisms: "Johnny Homer" to mean corner. By means of fine-lined wood engravings, Lawrence invests each miniverse with whimsy and bite (from "Inky Smudge": Judge, to "Noah's Ark": Park); his pageant of animals educates almost as much as it amuses. Perhaps the most diverting beast of the season is the dragon of Magic in the Mist (Atheneum; $4.95). Margaret Mary Kimmel's happy reptile-illustrated by Trina...